BIGAMY ALLEGED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 77, 26 February 1930, Page 7

BIGAMY ALLEGED.

ENGLISHMAN CHARGED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. The tale of a young man’s many romances was told in the Magistrate’s Court, to-day, when a motor salesman Arthur Ronald Harris, aged 34, an Englishman, was charged with committing bigamy. It was alleged that he had four wives. Documentary evidence was produced alleging that accused under his correct name married Georgina Vance, aged 20, on December 19, 1923, at Cheltenham, Gloucester, and on October 15, 1927, under the name of John Chari 's Pelham, he married Roberta Jessica Wad kin at the registrar’s office at Marylebone, London. Under the name of John Harris on September 2, 1929, accused married Evelyn Alice Newton, aged 20, at Willesden in Middlesex. Accused admitted that he arrived at Wellington bv the lonic from England last November. The original warrant was read to accused, who admitted that he was the person named in the warrant. Chief-Detective Hammond asked that accused be sent to Wellington to be surrendered at the expiry of 15 days and afterwards to be sent back to England under the Fugitive Offenders’ Act, 1927. The Magistrate made an order.